Translate once, translate twice, translate thrice and attribute: Identifying authors and machine translation tools in translated text

Proceedings - IEEE 6th International Conference on Semantic Computing, ICSC 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 121-125

  Caliskan, Aylin ^a   Greenstadt, Rachel ^a  

^a Drexel University   (United States)

Author keywords

anonymity; authorship attribution; machine learning; machine translation; privacy

Indexed keywords

ANONYMITY; AUTHORSHIP ATTRIBUTION; FEATURE SETS; MACHINE TRANSLATIONS; STYLOMETRIC FEATURES;

DATA PRIVACY; LEARNING SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS;

COMPUTER AIDED LANGUAGE TRANSLATION;

EID: 84870664825     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/ICSC.2012.46     Document Type: Conference Paper

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